lets hear it for ferries too

[Johnny Canuck3]

Bowen Island ferry.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Albion Ferry.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Kootenay Lake ferry

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Princess Marguerite, sails Victoria - Seattle.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

^you win out with your super ferry collection JC2!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

^you win out with your super ferry collection JC2!

We live in a water-bound province, so we have a lot of ferries.

 

[Poi E]

This little beaut used to ply the Scottish isles, and was on Cook Strait duty in NZ when me Dad took her through this. Tough old girl.

 

[janeb]

Just found this on you tube



Make that trip fairly often (Stromness to Scrabster) but have never seen it anything like as rough as this - in fact have had the ferry cancelled when it wasn't anything like this bad

 

[Miss-Shelf]

i am thinking about taking that trip next year on my quest to visit the british isles - would you recomment orkney or shetland?

 

[longdog]

Just found this on you tube

Fuck a duck

 

[teuchter]

i am thinking about taking that trip next year on my quest to visit the british isles - would you recomment orkney or shetland?

I would recommend either. Shetland is better although (and also partly because) it's further to get to. And get the ferry there, that's the best way to arrive.

Although I would say the Outer Hebrides are probably better landscape-wise than either the Orkneys or Shetland.

 

[janeb]

I would recommend either. Shetland is better although (and also partly because) it's further to get to. And get the ferry there, that's the best way to arrive.

Although I would say the Outer Hebrides are probably better landscape-wise than either the Orkneys or Shetland.

I love Orkney but have never been to Shetland and hope to next year, Orkney is an odd place - the scenery is nowhere near as impressive as the Western Isles or NW scotland, but the light and the combination of light, land and sea makes it compelling in my opinion. Think I will move there sometime, if I can come to terms with the almost total absence of trees.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

...

On a previous trip we went via Sealink Jetfoil. Probably the most exciting trip I've had. The power and feeling it rise out of the sea was incredible.

I remember doing that thorough a 5 Meter swell.

Fucking excellent.



My girlfriend at the time wasn't so happy. Had bruises on my right forearm for weeks after

 

[Dhimmi]

Hoverspeed - now that takes me back - one of the noisiest, most vibratory ways of crossing a body of water, especially the big car transports:

Back even further it was HoverLloyd. Brilliant journeys, like being in a Thunderbird...

And the classy interior...

Fondly remembered around these parts as we had the world's first commercial hovercraft service start out of Ramsgate harbour.

 

[chio]

I love the Hebrides, and those Calmac ferries with their stodgy food are just right for after you've been camping

 

[Radar]

I remember doing that thorough a 5 Meter swell.

Fucking excellent.



My girlfriend at the time wasn't so happy. Had bruises on my right forearm for weeks after

Ah, the Jetfoil.

B&I used to run one, the [SIZE=-1] Cu na Mara,[/SIZE] between Dublin and Liverpool during the early eighties. Great idea in principle, but the Irish sea proved a bit too much for it and it barely lasted a couple of years. It used to dock on the north side of the Liffey on the quays past the Custom House (as above), and at Pier Head on the Mersey

It spent a while in dry dock in Arklow and was reputed to have been flogged off to the far east to operate out of Japan. It was later used in a transparent attempt to subvert the whaling ban

 

[safari]

Is that the one that goes to the Shetlands and then Bergen or somewhere?

Yes it goes from Aberdeen,scotland/via kirkwall/Lerwick Shetland

 

[safari]

well i bet you you havent been on it in force 10 gales for 31 hours!!!!!!!!!!!! that was onboard the M/V Hjaltland

 

[safari]

yes come to shetland i live here and there is lots to do and lots of islands to visit

 

[19sixtysix]

Fun on a rough day

 

[19sixtysix]

I always remember going accross the Clyde to Bute on the Glen Sannox

 

[janeb]

Just booking tickets for our annual trip to orkney - taking the Scrabster - Stromness ferry out and the St Margarets Hope - Gills Bay catamaran back. Taking my dad up there for the first time, his 70th birthday present, can't wait.

 

[OneStrike]

The Pride of Bilbao, not a beauty maybe, but I had many a good night on board around 2001/2. It was a party boat taking 2000 revellers out into the middle of the channel for an all night party, landing in France at about 7am. Great nights for 25 quid! Had my best ever pills on board, just the two had me flying all night, just as people talk about the early 90's.

 

[cointreauman]

As a Irish lad in Stockwell we used to do the multiple holiday trips back to Dublin a few times a tear at school holiday times. It would be an electric pulled boat train from Euston to Crewe and a Steam (aletr diesel) loco to the cattle sheds of Holyhead and until 1965 - often this wonderful piece of crap - fondmemories of it packd to the ceilings with drink Irish navviees goign home for Christmas - no stabilisers and no one allowed on deck in rough seas

http://www.sealink-holyhead.com/railway/ships/princess_maud/home.html

We would often get off the boat train and wander into the customs shed (long since gone) and you would hear the murmur form the people closer to the ship "Oh Feck its the Maud....."

Fond memories of being one of the few NOT to get sick. I am sure there ay be some popping on here to have experienced that tub.

In the case of Crewe the early 60s was a scene of desolation as all the old Steam Engines were parked up before going for dismantling (although a lucky few are still going after restoration form Barry Island). Somewhere I have pictures fromm my dad's box brownie took form the platform as they swapped the engines and less than fond memories of the shite sandwiches my dad bought form trolleys on the platform while he had a fag. I think we would be on the platform for 15-20 minutes.

C

 

[rubbershoes]

ferries are too small and you can't play deck tennis

lets hear it for the SA Vaal

Southampton to Cape Town in about 10 days

 

[UnderOpenSky]

we bless our boats here....

http://www.herveybaywhalefestival.com.au/information.php/2/Program/43/Blessing+of+the+Fleet

I quite like hervey bay until I went to get my hair trimmed and got the great Australian hair cut.